Michael Najjar

Michael Najjar is a German artist, adventurer and – future astronaut. Born in 1966, he has lived and worked in Berlin since 1988. His work is shown in museums, galleries and biennials around the world.
He works with Photography and Video. The focus of his work is on key elements of our modern society driven and controlled by computer and information technologies. Najjar, widely seen as a visual futurist, transmutes science, history and philosophy into visions and utopias of future social

structures emerging under the impact of cutting-edge technologies. The fusion of realistic elements with fictitious realities, is a recurrent hallmark in his work which is usually composed in thematically focused series. Najjar demonstrates the potential of the photographic image, capable of making visible what is normally invisible to the human eye. His work visualizes what very often is beyond the limits of our perception, unveiling what is hidden under the surface of what he calls “telematic society”.
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Available works. cool earth

high altitude

other available works

video works

Installations

Videos

Available works. cool earth


  • electric rainfall, 2022

    Hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made wood/aluminum frame, 67 x 102 cm


  • floating generators, 2022

    Hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made wood/aluminum frame, 67 x 102 cm

high altitude


  • sensex_83-09, 2009

    edition of 6 + 2 AP
    hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made aluminium frame
    67 x 102 cm


  • bovespa_93-09, 2009

    edition of 6 + 2 AP
    hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made aluminium frame
    67 x 102 cm

other available works


  • spaceport, 2012

    edition of 6 + 2 AP
    hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made aluminium frame
    67 x 102 cm


  • silver arrow, 2011

    edition of 6 + 2 AP
    hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made aluminium frame
    132 x 202 cm


  • netropolis | são paulo, 2004

    edition of 6 + 2 AP
    hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec
    120 x 180 cm

video works


  • liquid landscape, 2022

    4k video, single channel, stereo sound, 8:10 min


  • arctic dystopia, 2022

    4k video, single channel, stereo sound, 6:27 min


  • spacewalk, 2013

    HD video 16:9, single channel, stereo
    3.31 min


  • equilibrium, 2013

    HD video 16:9, single channel, stereo
    5.30 min


  • orbital cascade_57-46, 2013

    HD video 16:9, single channel, stereo
    6.00 min


  • skyfall, 2015

    HD video 16:9, single channel, stereo
    4.00 min


  • terraforming, 2017

    HD video 16:9, single channel, stereo
    9.10 min

Installations


  • cool earth, 2022/23

    Installation view, Studio la Città


  • Installation view, 2016

    Studio la Città, Arte Fiera, Bologna


  • Installation view Studio la Città - 2015

    installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • high altitude - financial markets between reality and simulation, 2010

    installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona

    Publications

    News

  • Michael Najjar participates in the exhibition “Tower of Flowing Light” is a group show based on the theme of light, bringing together the works of 30 Chinese and international artists, including Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson and Yang Fudong. The exhibition is held at the Sifang Art Museum in China, from May 20 to October 31, 2023.

  • On January 14, 2023, on the occasion of the finissage of the exhibitions: MICHAEL NAJJAR | cool earth and GIORGIA SEVERI – ANDRE WOODWARD | In the Forest loudly Falling Silent, Studio la Città organizes a special guided tour. Starting at 10:30 – CLICK HERE to participate.

  • Great Italian and international photography is exhibited in Forlì, at the San Domenico Museums, from September 17, 2022 to January 8, 2023, within the exhibition: “Civilization: Vivere, Survivere, Buon Vivere“. Three hundred works by 130 photographers and photographers from five continents, including the symbolic image of the largest radio telescope in the world taken by Michael Najjar.

  • Michael Najjar participates in the exhibition: OVERVIEW EFFECT, hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MOCAB), with 3 large-scale works from the “outerspace” series. The title, taken from the 1987 book by Frank White, describes the cognitive change reported by a number of astronauts who have gazed upon their home planet from the perspective of space. From  June 19 to September 20, 2021.

  • BANK/Mabsociety Gallery Shanghai presents Michael Najjar‘s first solo exhibition in Beijing, open from April, 23 until May, 20, 2021.

  • Several artworks from Michael Najjar‘s acclaimed “outer space” series, including a 15 meters wide projection of the video “orbital cascade_57 – 46“, are featured in the exhibition “The New Classic of Mountains and Seas” at Zhejiang Museum in Hangzhou , China until 29 Novembre 2020.

  • Opens on 13 September 2019 Civilization: The Way We Live Now exhibition at The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The exhibition, curated by William Ewing and Holly Roussell, collects works by over 100 international photographers including Michael Najjar who participates with three works from the outer space series.
    September 13, 2019 – February 2, 2020 | The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne